Not to forget portal cavernoma cholangiopathy: the great mimicker!
Ankur Arora1, Kalpana Bansal, Binit Sureka
1Department of Radiology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, D-1 Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, 110070, India, aroradrankur@yahoo.com.
Abdominal Imaging
|January 22, 2015
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